Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone

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Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 4, 2012 @02:23AM from the sir-we're-still-counting dept.

AmiMoJo writes "The Iranian military says it has captured an unmanned U.S. drone aircraft in its airspace over Gulf waters. The Revolutionary Guards said they had brought down a ScanEagle — one of the smaller, less sophisticated drones employed by the Americans. The U.S. said it was looking into the reports." (The U.S. response so far, also reported by Reuters and others, seems to be "We're not missing any drones.")

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I think the inter-agency conversation went like by HPHatecraft · 2012-12-04 02:26 · Score: 5, Funny

CIA: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
Pentagon: What happened?
CIA: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
Pentagon: We're sending a squad up.
CIA: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.
Pentagon: Who is this? What's your operating number?
CIA: Uh...
1. Re:I think the inter-agency conversation went like by dkleinsc · 2012-12-04 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That was after another conversation that went like this:
  Pentagon: What happen?
  CIA: Somebody shot down us the drone. We get signal.
  Pentagon: Main screen turn on. It's you!
  Ahmadinajad: How are you gentlemen? All your tech are belong to us! You are on the way to destruction.
  Pentagon: What you say?
  Ahmadinajad: You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha ha!
  Pentagon: Take off every MiG. We know what you're doing. Move MiG. For great justice!
  
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  I am officially gone from /. Long live http://www.soylentnews.com/
These arn't the drones you are looking for. by DarthVain · 2012-12-04 02:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Those aren't the drones we are looking for. Move along.
Re:But But But "Argo" Taught Me ... by oodaloop · 2012-12-04 02:47 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh, please. The US may lie in the press, but it's nothing compared to what North Korea does. Our media doesn't say shit like on the day Obama was born, there was a double rainbow over the White House and a cold shiver went down Chuck Norris' spine. There's no comparison.

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Re:Bag limit? by CanHasDIY · 2012-12-04 02:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Wabbit season.

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Re:Bag limit? by mrmagos · 2012-12-04 03:06 · Score: 5, Funny

Drone season, fire!
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You're despicable.

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Re:But But But "Argo" Taught Me ... by s13g3 · 2012-12-04 03:18 · Score: 4, Funny

No... there's a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia. A white house in a, Red Square.
I'm living in films for the sake of Russia, a kino runner for the DDR, and the 52 daughters of the Revolution turn gold to chrome.
But seriously, lyrics to old goth songs notwithstanding... I know a lot of my fellow Americans are naive about a lot of things, but comparing our media, bad as it is, to China or Russia's, much less to North Korea's, of all places, is at best naive in the extreme, and a good sign someone has been drinking kool-aid they shouldn't be.

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Re:I guess ... by InfiniteWisdom · 2012-12-04 03:19 · Score: 3, Funny

Yes, the previous copy they bought is in use. They are busy wiping Israel off the map.